It’s Friday afternoon, I am sitting on a bus, and I think now is a perfect time to begin looking back on my week. A few interesting things have happened this week, including skydiving and performing at the opera house.
Last week, Friday afternoon, I was en route to uni when I was approached by the vodaphone marketing team; they wanted me to ‘make the most of now’. This involved climbing a ladder and jumping onto a massive foam mat. I know, it sounds fun right? Well, it is.
Note that these photos remain unavailable due to an ongoing dispute with vodafone; I will post the images here once the issue is resolved.
Quite a few weeks ago, I began learning an opera with an insane but brilliant conductor by the name of Karen. This consisted of two sessions maybe an hour each of trying to figure out what the words were, and having a brief look at the tune, and an even briefer look at the timing. That was about 15 weeks ago. Two weeks ago we had another rehearsal, involving the choir en masse, followed by a rehearsal with the orchestra. Days later, we were doing our final rehearsal at the opera house, ready for a major performance.
To cut an (extremely) long story short, the show went off without a hitch, although I was reading much of the words, tune and timing straight off the score.
For those of you who know about such things (I certainly don’t) the opera was Aida, by Verde; though I only did The Triumphal March. Also, for those interested, I was a bass two (The lower of the two bass parts).
My sister and I at the opera house after ther performance.
In mildly annoying news, I secured a contract for work this past week and next. Unfortunately I had to take leave on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for uni, and then when I found out about the opera house performance, Tuesday also. To add to this, next Monday is a public holiday. That makes a two week contract into a five day one. Today being the first day, I went in and got busy, only to find out halfway through the day that I had been hired by mistake; of course they let me work today, and thankfully also next Tuesday, but probably not the rest off the week. This is a shame for my bank account, but probably pretty good for my exams the week following. (Edit: I ended up working 12 hours on Tuesday, and working a full day also on Wednesday. I know this isn't very interesting to y'all, but I get so little work here that every bit makes a difference!)
In other, better news, I may have more work there later (with my own ‘office’, too).
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